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The Benefits of Working in a Standing Position

27 Jun 2016

Standing up while working has become a trend in recent years. After making the headlines of the American press from 2010, more and more companies begin to provide their employees with height-adjustable desks.

But why should we work standing up and what are the health benefits of this position?

What is the problem? With the mechanization and automation of work in many industries, more people have begun to work sitting.

Sitting down at work seems at first like a good idea because workers get less tired physically.

Studies have even shown that workers faced these problems more often if they sat for a long time.

Sitting greatly decreases body movement (especially in the lower part of the body). This creates blood circulation problems and a gradual loss of muscle mass. It is then necessary to compensate

our physical inactivity by practicing many sports outside of work.

We are therefore wasting valuable time that we could spend with our family, children, friends, etc.

Why working standing up instead of sitting down?

This idea may seem bizarre, but more and more people work in a standing position. This is actually something that has been done for years in many countries of Northern Europe.

As we have just seen, numerous studies have highlighted the health problems of our modern society. The conclusion: we are too sedentary and we dont move enough.

Thus, unlike at the beginning of the 20th century, we are now working more and more by sitting in front of a desk and a computer. This makes our body lose muscle gradually. It is therefore not uncommon to see people starting to suffer from back pain, for instance, after several years of sitting down at work.

This is the reason why sitting at work begins increasingly to be criticized by doctors and researchers.

A solution that was found was to simply get back to working in a standing position.

By spending less time sitting, the human body uses more often the leg and back muscles as well as the abdominal muscles.

The body is then reinforced and the pain gradually disappears.

The benefits of standing up

There are many advantages to working in a standing position. Here are a few:

The disappearance of back problems: the muscles of the body are toned up and able to keep our back in place more easily;

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